The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS,


Issued, contains 1924, S13 names, indi-
eating population of 100000.
"A successful attempt to make a
photograph OF a sunrise from the sum-
NIT of Pixies Peak has been made by
c. +. Snyder, a member of the Signal
Corps.
One evening recently tall pine
tree in front of Western farmer 8
dwelling was struck, killing nineteen
hogs, ten shoats, four pigs and five sows
and crippling two. Not bruised spot
could be seen on any of them.
The English co-operatives have a
bank whose transactions amount to
$S0,000,000 a year. They have 1,400
stores and do a business of $3.50, 600, 900
ayear. Their 100000 members receive
an annual profit of $15,O00,OO Their
profits during the past twenty-iour
years have been $3.50, 100000
"A Washington lady was canning
and picking peaches, and her little
acknowledgement daughter was
endeavoring to assist her in every
available way. Finally package of
whole cloves was produced, which were
to be inserted in the fruit for spice,
when the little one suddenly exclaimed:
40 mamma, let me put in the tacks!"
Farm and FireStde.
1t is said that there are over $780,
900 children, between one and twelve
years of age, who are insured in four
"babylife insurance" companies in
the United States. They are mostly
the children of workingmen. and the
insurance is usually carried to defray
funeral expenses in case of death. A
baby can not be insured until it attains
the age of at least one year. The prem
ium is paid, as rule. weekly, and is
five cents week in all cases. Frank
LeSIie'S.
"A mad dog attacked Mrs. Henry
Biekle, near Louisville, and William
Eichen, a young newly landed German
employed by Biekle, went to her rescue
and strangled the brute, but not before
his hands and arms had been badly bit
ten. AS soon as Biekle learned that
the dog was mad, and that Eichen
might have the hydrophobia, he
promptly discharged the young man
who had saved his wife's life, and the
poor fellow, without money or friends,
was admitted to the hospital.
"A dreadful story is told of a Chill
ian of Los Andes. He had a grudge
against a neighbor. and when small
pox recently appeared in the province
he obtained a number of dried pustules
and put them inside plug of tobacco,
which he placed where the people he
hated were likely to see it. The neigh
bors found it. made cigarettes from it,
and smoked them. A few days after
ward smallpox broke out in the house,
and with such virulence that no one of
the family escaped. The fend was at
tackled with the disease few days
afterward, and died after confessing
his crime.
"A good many of the uncharitable
reports which appear frequently re-
speeding the tendency of Indian youths,
educated i'll the East. to degenerate
after returning TO their homes. ought
to be silenced by letter of General
Armstrong, who says of twenty Indian
students who went back from Hamp-
ton to their Dakota reservation, that
all but three are doing very well as
laborers and mechanics, while some are
Independent farmers. A captain of U.
S. Infantry denies a statement, widely
printed, that any Hampton graduate
had part in the recent Arizona out
break. Congregati0naljst.
In treating a negro in Leipsic for
for an ulcerous affection, it was found
necessary to replace portions of the
skin with pieces taken from one or two
white persons. These latter pieces
gradually grew darker in color, and
finally as black as the patients own
skin. This singular fact led to an ex-
pertinent being made of transposing
portions of black skin on white pa
tient, and it was found that after few
weeks these began to grow pale, In
less than fourteen weeks they had, in
fact, grown so white as not to be dis
tinguishable from the patients natural
skin. -BOSton Budget.